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We conduct almost all of our courses in French. These courses span literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the present, and they emphasize significant authors or problems rather than chronological surveys.

Department Highlights

The Major

Our majors select courses from a wide range of historical periods (Middle Ages to the present). Most students double major, combining their interest in French with practically every other one of the College’s 40 majors.

Fellowships and Awards

Meet Our Faculty

Our faculty teach and conduct research in areas ranging from modern French literature to Medieval Romance, from classic French theater to the Francophone cultures of Africa and the Caribbean, to gender and sexuality in 19th-century French fiction.
Meet the entire department.